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Krishna Omkar is a past pupil of St. Columba’s. Currently he is reading for an     M. Phil in Sociology at Merton College, Oxford.

At the beginning of March, he was elected President of the Oxford University Quiz Society for the year 2006-2007.

Krishna also captained the Merton College Quiz Team to the finals of the Oxford inter-Collegiate Quiz, putting in their best performance since 1986 to emerge runners-up. He’ll now be captaining them for the BBC’s University Challenge.

The Oxford Union Society is the World’s most famous debating society, and is also currently ranked 1 in the world in terms of debating success. Since October, he has represented the OUS at the Inter-Varsity debates of the Universities of Newcastle, Durham, King’s college London and Birmingham, and reached the finals of the Bell Pairs Competition organized by the society (eight speakers reach the finals).

On March 2, Krishna was one of three student speakers in the prestigious presidential Debate of the Union (the other two speakers being candidates for president!) Fellow guest speakers included the Indian High Commissioner and the Editor of the Economist, as well as the Vice president of the European Parliament, Edward McMillan Scott.

He has been selected to join the Union’s Library Committee, which looks after Oxford’s oldest and biggest lending library; which with its murals by Walter Pater, William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is also a heritage site.

He has also Adjudicated at Oxford’s very own Inter-Varsity debate, the second biggest debating tournament in the World (Oxford does not compete); as well as the Oxford schools Debating Competition and the International competition for Young Debaters (for school-children).