Ana María received her law degree from Universidad Externado de Colombia in 1996 and later in 2001 she obtained a specialist degree in Industrial Property and New Technologies from the same university. In addition, she is an Executive and Business Coach certified by the Newfield agency in December 2008. She worked from 1999 to 2003 as an associate in the industrial property department of Baker & Mackenzie-Bogotá. She was co-founder of OlarteMoure (formerly Olarte Raisbeck & Frieri) from where she retired in December 2007 to devote herself to independent professional practice. From March 2013 to June 2015 she served as legal director of the Association of Pharmaceutical Research and Development Laboratories-AFIDRO, from where she led the Commissions in charge of updating the AFIDRO 2015 Code of Ethics and the analysis of the Colombian regulation on biosimilars. In December 2016 he returned to OlarteMoure as Of-Counsel.
Her areas of expertise are related to the agrochemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, especially in the areas of counseling and litigation in test data protection, protection and custody of confidential information, ethics and compliance, regulatory affairs and plant variety protection and defense. She has been a visiting professor at the Universidad Autónoma de México UNAM, the Universidad de Concepción (Chile), and the Universities of Los Andes, Javeriana and Manuela Beltrán in Bogotá. She was a member of the panel of experts at the Global Biotechnology Forum organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Program (Brasilia, July 2003). She is a distinguished lecturer on industrial property matters.