1. Arundhati Ghose was Permanent Representative of India to the UN Offices in Geneva and was head of the Indian delegation that participated in the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva in 1996.
Arundhati Ghose served as Ambassador to the Republic of Korea and the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Arundhati Ghose graduated from Lady Brabourne College in Kolkata and went on to study at Visva-Bharati University, in Shantiniketan, before joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1963.
Arundhati Ghose is a sister of Ruma Pal, a former Supreme court judge, and of Bhaskar Ghose, former chairman of Prasar Bharati.
Arundhati Ghose is the aunt of journalist Sagarika Ghose and Sanjay Ghose, a social worker who was abducted and killed by ULFA in Assam in 1997.
Arundhati Ghose was the key liaison to the Bangladesh Government in exile in Calcutta during the 1971 War.
In 1996, Arundhati Ghose was deputed to head India's delegation to the CTBT conference in Geneva.
Arundhati Ghose resisted pressure from the Western countries on India to sign the CTBT, attaining celebrity status in India in the process.
Arundhati Ghose was actively engaged in a number of activities till her death from cancer in 2016.
Arundhati Ghose was a Member of the Union Public Service Commission from 1998 to 2004.
Arundhati Ghose was a member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters from 1998 to 2001.
Arundhati Ghose was a Member from India to the Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from 2004 to 2005.
Arundhati Ghose was a member of the Executive Council of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses from 2004 to 2007.
Arundhati Ghose was a member of Task Force on non-proliferation and Disarmament set up by the Ministry of External Affairs in 2007.