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Matias Spektor is an Argentine-born academic who serves as Full Professor of International Relations and runs the Center for International Relations at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil.^[1] He is currently the dean of the School of International Relations at FGV.^[2] His research focuses on transnational violence, security in the Global South and political violence.^[3]

Early Life & Career

Born in Rosario, Argentina, Spektor grew up in the Brazilian state of Bahia and in Brasília. He holds a B.A. and a Masters in International Relations from the University of Brasília, as well as a Masters and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford.^[4]

Spektor is the author of several books regarding Foreign relations of Brazil and Brazil-United States relations, including Azeredo da Silveira^[5][6][7] and The Origins of Nuclear Cooperation.^[8] His book 18 Dias traces the transition from the Fernando Henrique Cardoso presidency to the Workers' Party first government under President Lula and how it was articulated together with the U.S. government ^[9]

He wrote a weekly column for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo from 2012 to 2019,^{[10] [11]} and spent time as a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,^[12] the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,^[13] King's College London^[14] and the London School of Economics.^{[citation needed]} He often collaborates with international institutions on podcasts and conferences, usually focusing on Global South politics.^[15]

Spektor has founded the Center for International Relations at FGV, and coordinates foreign policy-related activities in the Oral History Program at the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary Brazilian History (CPDOC/FGV). He's interviewed former presidents, former Ministers of Foreign Affairs and ambassadors of Brazil (both foreign and domestic) throughout the world.^{[citation needed]}

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