Dr. Robert Spencer was educated at McGill University, Trinity College in the University of Toronto, and Oxford University.  As a Professor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow of Trinity College of the University of Toronto, and a respected teacher and mentor to generations of students, many of whom had their own distinguished careers in the Foreign Service, academia, and the broader Canadian society.

He is a distinguished Canadian who spent his career defending Canada and Canadian interests on the European stage. Having been at the creation of NATO, he remains a staunch supporter of the Transatlantic relationship.