Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vela Velupillai
I'll leave it to others to judge the Google scholar results but per  he's been a " distinguished professor appointment at a major institution of higher education and research" I believe ''twice'', both as "(Distinguished) Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City ''and'' Professore di Chiara Fama in the Department of Economics at the University of Trento, Italy." ''Professore di Chiara Fama'' appears to simply be the Italian term for distinguished professor
— User:Shawn, 01:21, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NACADEMIC (Wikipedia:Notability)