Schwab Academy is the Geneva educational and publishing organization Klaus Schwab founded in August 2025, months after he resigned the World Economic Forum chair he had held for 54 years. Its job is to carry one argument into print and into classrooms: that a near-100-year life breaks the old sequence of school, then career, then retirement, and demands a redesign of work and later life. Its book list is the Intelligent Age Series, and its December 2025 volume is the longevity title TIME put on its cover in March 2026.
An academy, and why now
Schwab is 88. He built Davos into the room where heads of state and chief executives meet once a year, then handed off the chair in April 2025 after 54 years. The Academy is where the thinking he wants to outlast that role now lives. It is a separate body from the World Economic Forum: different legal entity, different mandate. The Forum convenes; the Academy publishes, and runs the lifelong-learning and certification programs built around the books, year-round.
The Intelligent Age Series
Volume 1, Thriving and Leading in the Intelligent Age (2024), set out how institutions and leaders adapt when machines absorb routine cognitive work. Volume 2, the December 2025 release, turns that same lens on individual lives, and on aging in particular. The line connecting them: as artificial intelligence takes over the predictable, human value moves toward judgment, ethics, creativity and wisdom, the faculties that tend to sharpen with age rather than dim.
A 231-page book makes the case; the institution behind it tells you the author means it as a program, not a provocation.
Read it for the framework, not the prescription
That premise deserves to be said plainly. Schwab writes from a position few of his readers occupy, with the wealth, health and autonomy that make a multi-stage life a real choice rather than a slogan. The Academy publishes the argument. It does not close the gap between an 88-year-old founder's options and a typical 65-year-old's constraints.
For BAVIDA the Academy is a primary source. When a man who spent 54 years convening the global economy makes his last institution a platform devoted to longer, multi-stage lives, the choice of vehicle is itself the signal.