Victoria University’s Krishna Sharma Becomes Youngest Vice Chancellor in the World

By Max Patrick Ocaido

Dr. Krishna N. Sharma has been recognized for being the youngest Vice Chancellor in the World.

Dr. Krishna, an Indian author and researcher is the current Vice Chancellor of Jinja Road based Victoria University in Kampala. He became VC at the age of 32, 6 months and 15 days on 9th July 2017 making him the “youngest Vice Chancellor.”

Kirshna has been recognized by World Unique Records, a world record book published in India. Unique World Records works to document the extraordinary out of ordinary people and showcase their talent to the entire world. The record book publishes annually, listing all world records in the categories of amazing facts, biggest, business, collections, creativity, education, extraordinary talent, inventions, marathon, memory and mental world, most and mass, people and places, smallest, strength and stamina, and youngest achievers.

Born on December 24, 1984, Sharma started his career as Assistant Lecturer and then Head of Department and Vice Principal at Jeevan Jyoti Institute of Medical Sciences, Allahabad, India in 2007. Before becoming Dean at St. Louis University, Cameroon and Dean- Faculty of Health Sciences at Victoria University, Kampala. He is also 3 times world record holder educator, researcher and prolific author with more than 25 best-sellers out of his more than 125 published books.

He sold books in trains at the age of 12 years and started his first business at age 16. He studied Physiotherapy and became a celebrity physiotherapist, serving in various famous TV shows. He is also a graduate in Music and is certified in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).