JOHN BUSER is member of the Investment Committee and director of NB Private Equity Partners Ltd. He is global head of private equity fund of funds for NB Alternatives and managing director of NBG. He is also member of the NB Alternatives Co-investment Investment Committee and the NB Alternatives Secondary Investment Committee. Before joining NB Alternatives in 1999, Mr. Buser was partner at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., where he had experience in the practice of domestic and international income taxation during his 17 year tenure. Mr. Buser was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1982 after receiving his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

LINDSAY CRAIG is the president of National Review Institute. Under Lindsay’s leadership, the Institute has established sound fiscal footing, even as NRI has become the parent company for NR, Inc., significantly expanded and enhanced its existing programs while establishing new ones, and broadened its partnerships with policy organizations and policymakers across the country.

ALLYSON N. HO is a partner in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and co-chair of the Firm’s nationwide Appellate and Constitutional Law practice group. Mrs. Ho is “undoubtedly one of the premier appellate lawyers in the United States,” according to Chambers. She has presented over 90 oral arguments in federal and state courts nationwide, including multiple high-stakes cases on behalf of business before the U.S. Supreme Court.

RICH LOWRY brings his sharp analysis and well-formed opinions to the political discussion through his writing and commentary. Lowry became editor of National Review in 1997 when selected by William F. Buckley Jr. to lead the magazine. Lowry is a syndicated columnist and a political commentator. He also writes a weekly column for Politico. Lowry is a frequent guest on NBC’s Meet the Press and the TODAY show.

DAN MCLAUGHLIN is a National Review Institute fellow and a senior writer at NationalReview.com. He spent 23 years as an attorney practicing securities and commercial litigation in New York City. He was formerly a contributing editor of RedState, a columnist at the Federalist and the New Ledger, a baseball blogger at BaseballCrank.com, BostonSportsGuy.com, and the Providence Journal Online, and a contributor to the Command Post. His writings on politics, baseball, and law have appeared in numerous other newspapers, magazines, websites, and legal journals.

KRISTEN WAGGONER leads Alliance Defending Freedom as its CEO, president, and general counsel in protecting fundamental freedoms and promoting the inherent dignity of all people throughout the U.S. and around the world. Waggoner oversees the efforts of more than 400 ADF team members in seven global offices as well as 4,500 network attorneys engaged in litigation, legislation, training, funding, and public advocacy. ADF also provides legal resources to nearly 4,000 churches and ministries through its Ministry Alliance program and defends the persecuted church in dozens of countries.

JOHN YOO is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Professor Yoo has served in all three branches of government and has published more than 100 articles in academic journals on subjects including national security, constitutional law, international law, and the Supreme Court. He also regularly contributes to the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and National Review, among others.