Sheila Raquel Abed de Zavala is a Paraguayan lawyer and politician.
Abed studied law at the National University of Asunción; afterwards she obtained a Master in Environmental Law at the Université de Limoges.[1] She has experience in environmental topics in the framework of the United Nations.[2]
On 15 August 2013 she was sworn in as Minister of Justice and Labor of Paraguay in the cabinet of President Horacio Cartes.[3] In April 2020, alongside international affairs experts Claudia S. de Windt and Maria Amparo Alba, Abed founded the Inter-American Institute on Justice and Sustainability (IIJS) in the city of Washington, D.C., in United States of America where the organization has its headquarters.[4]