Valeria is an economist from Universidad Santo Tomás (Bogotá, Colombia), she holds a Master’s degree in Intellectual Property from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and is a specialist in Valuation of Intangible Assets at Universidad Externado de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia).

In 2019, she joined OlarteMoure as an associate in the Innovation, Protection and Transfer (IP&T) department and for the Asia Office. In this area, she was in charge of the development of internal competences, tools, methodologies and instruments (statutes, manuals, protocols, processes and software-intensive tools) for the identification, protection, use, management, commercialisation, monetisation, valuation and transfer of intangible assets and intellectual property rights resulting from business activities or R&D&I+e in Universities, SMEs, Institutes, companies from different sectors of the Industry and Business Groups at national and international level. At the Asia Office she is responsible for strengthening bilateral relations between Japan and Colombia in different activities related to international trade, especially those related to transfer, entrepreneurship and innovation.

Since 2022 she has been appointed as Director of Innovation, Protection and Transfer, a position in which, together with her team, she designs strategies aimed at the transfer, monetisation and management of intellectual property rights.