As of 2024, Prof. YoungHoon Kim established the Official World Record® for the title “The World’s Highest IQ Person Now” with IQ 276 through 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® for the first time in history. The world’s highest IQ score Prof. YoungHoon Kim was officially certified by: 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, Esoteric Society, Ultima Society & Nano Society.
With perfect scores on various clinical and experimental high-range intelligence tests, YoungHoon Kim’s high intelligence was verified by the GIGA Society (1/billion), Chris Langan’s Foundation (1/10 million), Olympiq Society (1/3 million), Mega Society (1/million), Triple Nine Society (1/1000), and Mensa (1/50). In 2024, Prof. YoungHoon Kim 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 Korean Ministry of Culture.
Mind Sports Specialist
As the mind sports specialist, YoungHoon Kim 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.
Education & Research
Prof. YoungHoon Kim 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). He was also nominated for an Honorary Doctor of Science by Queen Mary, University of London in 2024. Currently, as a research partnership advisor, he is collaborating with the research lab and center at the University of Cambridge and Yale University.
As the President and CEO, Prof. YoungHoon Kim founded a non-profit organization, the United Sigma Intelligence Association(USIA) 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.
Through his unique and creative thinking, Prof. YoungHoon Kim has contributed to society and humanity as Honorary Chairman of the Advisory Boards at an NGO Challenge Korea Headquarters where top South Korean leadears including 8th UN General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon, 12th President of the World Bank Group Jim Yong Kim, Chairman of Seoul Metropolitan Government, and Chairman of South Korea National Assemly were officially awarded the Challenge Korea Grand Prize. Prof. YoungHoon Kim is also Honorary Chairman of Judging Committee of South Korea National Assembly Chairman Award & South Korea Seoul Metropolitan Government Mayor Award.
