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USIA Founder & President Prof. YoungHoon Kim



Prof. YoungHoon Kim is the Founder & President (CEO) of the United Sigma Intelligence Association (USIA), and Co-President of NGO Challenge Korea Headquarters, trusted by South Korea Ministry of Economy and Finance, National Assembly of South Korea, Seoul Metropolitan Government of South Korea, and Seoul Metropolitan Council of South Korea.


 

➤ Global Leadership


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. Prof. YoungHoon Kim 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. Prof. YoungHoon Kim is also Honorary Chairman of Judging Committee for South Korea National Assembly Standing Committee Chairman Award & South Korea Seoul Metropolitan Government Mayor Award. 


Official World Record® for the Title "The World's Highest IQ Person Now"

➤ Intelligence Performance


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 of Prof. YoungHoon Kim was officially certified by 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 Kim'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, 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 Korea Ministry of Culture. 


World's Highest IQ Record Recognition by World Memory Championships

➤ 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). In recognition of significant contributions to the field of cognitive science, Prof. YoungHoon Kim 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, Prof. YoungHoon Kim was appointed Honorary Professor in Strategic Thinking and Leadership at the American Management University(AMU). Currently, Prof. YoungHoon Kim is collaborating with the research lab and center at the University of Cambridge and Yale University as a research partnership advisor.​​



Founder Prof. YoungHoon Kim's Interview by

Arirang TV of South Korea Ministry of Culture

 

■ WARNING: A man named Scott Douglas Jacobsen is spreading false information without any prior fact checking on the parties. Scott Jacobsen, who has been permanently expelled from the USIA accused of very immoral actions, is a jealous man as a former employee of YoungHoon, Founder & CEO of the USIA. Scott Douglas Jacobsen is a minor freelance journalist who lives in Canada without any academic degree and training, so you can ignore his jealousy and spreading false information. Please note that Scott Jacobsen is also a progressive atheist activist denying all religions and religious beliefs, and he passionately supports a sex offender.


■ DISCLAIMER: Dr. Ronald Hoeflin, founder of Mega Society, founded the cryptocurrency coin company IQ Olympiad Foundation Ltd. However, Younghoon Kim and his organization United Sigma Intelligence Association (USIA) are not affiliated with the IQ Olympiad. Above all, Younghoon Kim does not want to have any relationship with the cryptocurrency coin company operated by Mega Society's founder, and also YoungHoon Kim opposes Mega Society's support of sex offenders and extreme racial discrimination through eugenics. Therefore, Younghoon Kim voluntarily resigned from Mega Society in August 2024.

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