Leila Rachid de Cowles


Leila Rachid de Cowles is a Paraguayan diplomat.

Background and earlier life

Rachid studied Foreign Relations at the Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción.
Afterwards she obtained a postgraduate degree at the Sociedad de Altos Estudios Internacionales, Madrid, Spain, another at the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, Madrid, España and a doctorate in Political Science at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She was Paraguayan Ambassador to the United States.

Foreign Minister of Paraguay

She served as Foreign Minister of Paraguay during the presidential tenure of Nicanor Duarte Frutos.