Deputy Chief of Mission
Perry L. Holloway
Deputy Chief of Mission Perry Holloway arrived in Paraguay July, 30, 2009. Mr. Holloway is a career Senior Foreign Service Officer who entered on duty in May of 1989. Mr. Holloway’s previous two assignments were Director of the Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) in the United States Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia and Deputy Director of the same section.
Before NAS Bogotá, Mr. Holloway was the Andean Counter Drug Initiative Coordinator in the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), and prior to that, he spent a year of graduate study at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF). Before ICAF, he was the Director of the Narcotics Affairs Section at the United States Embassy in Guatemala for three years.
Mr. Holloway began his diplomatic career in Bogota, Colombia as a Consular Officer and Staff Assistant to the Ambassador. He has also served in different capacities at the the U.S. embassies in El Salvador, Mexico, Ecuador, and Guatemala. He is the recipient of six State Department Superior Honor Awards, two Meritorious Honor Awards, and one Group Superior Honor Award.
Mr. Holloway is a native of South Carolina and graduated from Wofford College in 1983. In addition to the Masters in National Resource Strategy received from ICAF, he also has a Masters in International Business Science (MIBS) from the University of South Carolina. He speaks fluent Spanish. Mr. Holloway, and his wife Rosaura, have two children.