Nan is a founding member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA) and Ma Te Rae, Māori Evaluation Association – the first Indigenous Evaluation Association. She is also a co-founder of the Developmental Evaluation Institute (https://developmental-evaluation.org/about). Nan is a Fellow of the Australian Evaluation Society. Nan and colleagues received the 2013 AES Best Evaluation Policy and Systems framework for the Developmental Evaluation of He Oranga Poutama for Sport New Zealand, and in 2000 for a child welfare framework for the Ministry of Social Policy. Nan is a co-editor (along with Michael Quinn Patton and Kate McKegg) of the book Developmental Evaluation: Real World Applications, Adapted Tools, Questions Answered, Emergent Issues, Lessons Learned, and Essential Principles, Guilford Press, New York (2015).