Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez was a junior economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, he was a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he completed an MPhil in development studies. He has worked as a John Gardner Fellow and as a research economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 with degrees in economics and political economy.