Joseph Yong Bum Bae is the co-chief executive officer of KKR & Co. Inc, along with Scott Nuttall. The two took over as co-chief executives in fall 2021 from KKR's founders, Henry Kravis and George Roberts. Bae joined KKR in 1996 after a short stint at

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. He is credited with a critical role in KKR's expansion in Asia. He is the first Korean-American to hold a top corporate position in his industry. Bae, along with his wife

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, was among a group of Harvard alumni who donated $45 million for Harvard's Asian American studies program in 2021. In 2021, he was one of the founders of

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. He graduated from

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with a bachelor's degree.

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