Background
Clemencia Suarez de Paez, Luz was born in 1955 in Bogotá, Colombia.
Clemencia Suarez de Paez, Luz was born in 1955 in Bogotá, Colombia.
School of Law, Universidad Libre de Colombia, Bogotá (Doctor in Law). Post-graduate Studies, Universidad de Nuestra Seńora del Rosario, Bogotá (Masters Degree in Commercial Law). Post-graduate Studies, Universidad de Nuestra Seńora del Rosario, Bogotá (Masters Degree in Commercial Law).
Spoken languages: Spanish and English.
Worked at Cavelier Abogados (Bogota) specializing in Industrial Property Law, Patent Law, Trademark Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1979, Colombia. Author: "Los hijos naturales frente a la ley Colombiana".
Positions Held: Professor, Constitution Law, both general and Colombian and Administrative Law, Escuela de Cadetes de Policia General, Santander, 1980-1984.
Attorney, Assessment Division of the Chamber of Commerce and the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce, 1977-1979. Chief of the Juridical Office of the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce, 1979-1982.
Technical Assessor of the Colombian Diplomatic Mission in Geneva at the Second Diplomatic Conference for the Revision of the Paris Convention, 1982. Chief of the Division of Industrial Property and Superintendency of Industry and Commerce, 1982-1984.
Colombian Delegate at the First Andean Seminar on Industrial Property, July, 1983.
Spokesman for the Delegates of the Andean Pact Countries at the First Regional Meeting on Industrial Property for Latin America and the Caribbean, Bogotá, 1984.