Mitaali
Katoch
​MITAALI KATOCH
Reading for PhD Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University
MRes Design (Royal College of Art), MA Design, Architect COA
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Global development and management executive within the arts, culture, fashion, and media sectors. Focused on private wealth, family offices; corporations, institutions, and government.
Current
Associate & Managing Director of Development for CHARLESMATZ, a multi-business-unit holding company including: The Built Environment division: The Princeton Club of New York, The Plaza Athénée Hotel New York, New York, The New York City Parks Department; Crucible Arts, The Turnbull Townhouse, The Turnbull Townhouse Gallery with Turnbull & Asser London, Townhouse Media Filmworks LLC-New York and London; Crucible Press LLC-Napa Valley California, Crucible System; University of Oxford
Past engagements
Montgomery Arts - The India Art Fair as Director of Design; Academic Adjunct faculty at The New York Institute of Technology - New York and Abu-Dhabi; Visiting juror at The Royal College of Art, London. As curator of individual exhibition and research initiatives held at the American Institute of Architects Center for Architecture with The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
CONFERENCES, publications, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT & Media Mentions
1 / Conferences
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Katoch, M. (2025) 'Nesting: the particularities of a studio space in fashion houses', Critical Development Workshop: (Re)generating Half-Baked Ideas, International Critical Management Studies (ICMS) Conference, University of Manchester, June 2025 (Presenter)
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Katoch, M. (2025) 'Bricolage: approaching transparency within an historic case study of an outlier luxury fashion house', Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism, University of Cyprus, July 2025 (Presenter)
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Engaged Scholarship Conference for Early Career Researchers, University of Manchester, January 2025 (Invited Participant)
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Student Summit Oxford—Cambridge Arc Universities, University of Bedfordshire, November 2024, (Student Panelist)
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Katoch, M. (2024) '3 Min Thesis Presentation', Student Summit Oxford—Cambridge Arc Universities, University of Bedfordshire, November 2024 (Presenter)
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Katoch, M. (2024) 'Enabling and Enacting Project-Based Ambidexterity: An Exploratory Case Study of Dior, the Global Fashion Company', British Academy of Management, Nottingham Trent, September 2024, (Presenter)
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2 / Publications
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Cook, M. (2023) Drawn Thought. Edited by Charles Matz, Jonathan Dillon, Mitaali Katoch. Crucible Press. ISBN: 978-0-9967526-7-1
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Katoch, M. (2021). From Grain to Gold: The Regeneration of New Delhi’s Dhan Mill Compound. In: Crespi, L. (eds) Design of the Unfinished. The Urban Book Series. Springer. ISBN: 978-3030734565
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Brooker, G., Harriss, H., Walker, K. (eds.) Matz, C.A., Dillon, J. (exec eds.) Interior Futures (2019) Katoch, M. (Project production). Crucible Press. ISBN: 978-0-9967526-2-6
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3 / Public Engagement
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(2024) The Ambidexterity of Fashion Houses: Myth or Reality? Oxford Brookes Alumni Talks Watch Here
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(2024) Fashion, Film, and Organisation Studies, Organised and hosted by M.Katoch. Guest Speakers: Fashion scholar Dr Yuniya Kawamura and Filmmaker Frédéric Tcheng. Find details here (Recording coming soon!)
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4 / Media Programming
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Drawn Thought: An interview with the author Dr Mike Cook, Professor of Engineering at Imperial College, London (2023) Produced by M.Katoch [Interview]. CHARLESMATZ
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Local Knowledge, Global Networks: Digital Futures for Higher Education featuring Prof. Howard Hotson, Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History, University of Oxford (2022) Produced by M.Katoch [Lecture]. British Council Singapore
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​Ed-tech and Createch Portfolios, University of Oxford and AWS Human-Machine Collaboration Programme (2022) Conference Organiser [Conference Film]
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​Gems and Fashion featuring Dr Claudia Wagner, Senior Researcher Lecturer Classical Archaeology, Lady Margaret Hall, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford (2022) Produced by M.Katoch [Interview]. University of Oxford and AWS Human-Machine Collaboration Programme
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5 / Media and Institutional Mentions
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dgdmeg0dro
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https://www.fitnyc.edu/academics/academic-divisions/liberal-arts/about/faculty-achievement.php
https://ca.style.yahoo.com/gen-z-hybrid-working-stories-065403724.html
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https://www.thevoiceoffashion.com/intersections/features/what-keeps-the-dhan-mill-buzzing-5600
https://enrouteindianhistory.com/history-of-delhis-posh-dhan-mill/#google_vignette
https://rcaied.tumblr.com/post/189438713872/interior-futures-london-the-launch-of-interior
https://www.nyit.edu/news/features/interior_design_students_reveal_hidden_spaces​​​​​​