YoungHoon Kim

As the President and CEO, YoungHoon Kim founded a nonprofit organization, the United Sigma Intelligence Association for the world’s brightest minds, which includes seven Nobel Prize winners and the greatest minds in the world such as Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Yuval Harari, Richard Dawkins, Howard Gardner, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Daniel Dennett, Anthony Giddens, Philip Zimbardo, and Terence Tao.
 
Through the USIA, He also founded the Intellectual Hall of Fame with support of Lifeboat Foundation, honorably inducted Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Stephen Hawking. YoungHoon has contributed to society and humanity as Co-President and Vice-Chairman of the Board at an NGO Challenge Korea Headquarters where top South Korean leaders including 8th UN General-Secretary, 12th President of the World Bank Group, Chairman of UN IPCC, Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government, President of South Korea National Assembly, and South Korea Government Ministers were awarded the Challenge Korea Grand Prize.
 
He is also Honorary Chairman of Judging Committee for South Korea National Assembly Standing Committee Chairman Award & South Korea Seoul Metropolitan Government Mayor Award.
 
As of 2024, YoungHoon established the Official World Record(r) for the title “The World’s Highest IQ Person Now” with IQ 276 at the only world record certification body accredited by the Council of the Notariats of the European Union, and his world record was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Official World Record(r) for the first time in history.
 
YoungHoon’s IQ accreditation is from the World Mind Sports Council, World Memory Championships, World Speed Reading Championships, World Mind Mapping Championships, GIGA Society, Supertalent World Record & Supertalent of the World, Korea Masterpiece & Master Certification Committee, Challenge Korea Headquarters, Korea Best Record Institute, Korea Record Institute, World Genius Directory, Global Genius Registry, Esoteriq Society, Ultima Society & Nano Society.
 
With perfect scores on various clinical and experimental high range intelligence tests, YoungHoon’s high intelligence was verified by the GIGA Society(1/billion), Yale Clinical Neuroscientist PhD (1/10 million), Olympiq Society (1/3 million), Mega Society (1/million), Triple Nine Society (1/1000), and Mensa (1/50). In 2024, YoungHoon was named as number one with the world’s highest IQ by Reader’s Digest, The Economist, CNN, CNBC, etc., and he was recognized and interviewed as a South Korean with the world’s highest IQ by Arirang TV of South Korea Ministry of Culture.
 
As the mind sports specialist, YoungHoon is Tony Buzan Honorary Professor in Creative Thinking at the Tony Buzan Academy and University, and an Honorary Council Member at the World Mind Sports Council, World Memory Championships, World Speed-Reading Championship, and World Mind Mapping Championship in recognition of having the world’s highest IQ record.
 
He was the first South Korean arbiter at the World Memory Championships and Asia Pacific Memory Championships. In 2024, he became an official member of the Ratification / Awards Committee of the World Memory Championships of WMSC, founded by Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Maps.
 
YoungHoon studied academic degrees in psychology, neuroscience, counseling & coaching, linguistics, sociology, philosophy, and nondenominational theology at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, University of London, Korea University, and Yonsei University (#1 private university in Asia).
 
In recognition of significant contributions to the field of cognitive science, YoungHoon was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science in Cognitive Science degree from the American Management University (AMU), establishing the world record title “The First and Youngest Honorary Doctor of Science in Cognitive Science in the World” at the Supertalent World Record and Korea Best Record Institute.
 
In addition, YoungHoon was appointed Honorary Professor in Strategic Thinking and Leadership at the university. Currently, YoungHoon is collaborating with the research lab and center at the University of Cambridge and Yale University as a research partnership advisor.
 
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