Rosario has a BA in International Business and graduated from the Universidad Católica Santa María Antigua of Panama. Postgraduate in Strategic Administration and Business Management and an MBA in Evaluation of Development Projects at the Universidad Latinoamericana de Comercio Exterior of Panama. She holds a Master’s Degree in Cooperative Business Administration from the University of Panama. Rosario obtained her PhD in Management Sciences at the University of SupAgro-Montpellier France. She worked at the prestigious Panamanian consulting firm ABCO Global, as an Analyst-Researcher. She coordinated the Intelligence and Knowledge Management department of the National Institute of Statistics and Census of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic and also offered scientific advice for the Agricultural Census-Panama. Among her research lines are: business strategies and strategies in cooperative systems, agri-food chains, agricultural economics, and management.