In his speech at the launching, Senior Governance Adviser for Indonesia Douglas Ramage highlighted the importance of academia to the World Bank's mandate as a "knowledge bank". "In the development World, the World Bank is not an All Knowing institution. On the contrary, it is an institution that wants to keep learning, and has to keep learning. Because what we often do is try to solve the hardest problems in a country's development," said Ramage, who has fifteen years of experience working on Indonesian development. "For this reason, linkages to universities become very important to us. Because it is from campuses that we develop dialogue on various aspects of development, pick at the brains of both students and lecturers, and also provide as much information as we can to students, so that they can take lessons learned from the past and design new development methods for the next generation."