Princess Leila attended primary school in Tehran at Niavaran Special School (1974-78) and at Marymount School in New York City (1979-80). Middle school was at the Cairo American College in Cairo, Egypt, and later at Pine Cobble School in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Princess Leila completed her high school education at Rye Country Day School Rye, New York (1983-87), and attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, as an undergraduate (1988-90).