She received her Doctorate Summa Cum Laude in Public Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has more than 30 years of experience in the financial and commercial fields and founded her own firm, Dra. Angélica Ortiz y Socios. The firm specializes in regulatory compliance in money laundering prevention and the criminal liability of legal entities.

She has also held the positions of Director of Legal Processes for the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and Senior Manager of Money Laundering Prevention at PricewaterhouseCoopers, S.C. She is certified in the Prevention of Transactions with Illicit Resources in Vulnerable Activities by the FIU.
 

She also holds diplomas in Corporate Compliance from the Universidad Panamericana and in Amparo Proceedings from the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
 

She has participated in various international initiatives and working groups, such as the Central African Anti-Money Laundering Group, at the invitation of the European Union. She was also part of the Think Tank Dialogue on "Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Criminal Groups" with European experts and authorities. She has also spoken at the Research Center for Global Governance at the University of Salamanca.
 

She is the author and co-author of several publications (see "Publications"). She is a postgraduate professor at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City and Guadalajara.