He is the past Executive Director of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE).
[4] Gates earned a master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Gates also earned an honors degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
He also spent time as a student at the University of East Anglia in England, where he studied political economics.
On May 20, 2006, Gates received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania.