Born in Rosario, Argentina, he grew up in the Brazilian state of Bahia and in Brasília.
[citation needed] Spektor is the author of several books regarding Foreign relations of Brazil and Brazil-United States relations, including Azeredo da Silveira[1][2][3] and The Origins of Nuclear Cooperation.
[4] He writes a weekly column for Folha de S. Paulo,[5] the newspaper, and spent time as a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,[6] the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,[7] King's College London[8] and the London School of Economics.
[citation needed] Spektor has founded the Center for International Relations at FGV, and he coordinates the foreign policy-related activities in the Oral History Program at the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary Brazilian History (CPDOC/FGV), which has interviewed former presidents, former Ministers of Foreign Affairs and ambassadors of Brazil throughout the world, as well as foreign ambassadors in Brazil.
He is also a member of the Inter-American Dialogue and is involved with the Personal Archives program, which preserves personal collections from high-level authorities, such as former Minister of Foreign Affairs Celso Amorim's.