Roshni Thomson is an Indian diplomat of the 2015 batch of the Indian Foreign Service. She holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, and an Advanced Diploma in French Language Studies from the Institute Catholique de Paris and Sorbonne University, Paris. She is fluent in Malayalam, English, Hindi, and French, while she also speaks some Tamil. Roshni began her diplomatic career as Assistant Secretary in the Administration Division of the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi from December 2015 to August 2016. She was then posted as Third Secretary (Press, Information & Culture) at the Embassy of India in Paris from September 2016 to September 2017. During this period, she was also deputed to the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO in Paris to support the campaign for India’s candidature for the Executive Board elections between October and December 2017.