Draft:Harshad Topiwala
British executive and author
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Harshad Topiwala (born 1945) is a former Shell executive, who oversaw major chemical operations in Holland, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Japan.[1] He has served as Non-Executive Board Member (NED) on several public sector bodies including NHS Trusts and the University of Kent.[2] Previously, he held an academic position at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published more than twenty articles in peer-reviewed journals. [3] [4]He researched and co-authored Indian Doctors in Kenya 1895-1940, published in 2015 under the series Cambridge Imperial & Post Colonial Studies.[5]Topiwala has made a major donation to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. [6] He is currently researching the subject of Industrial Policy as applied to the Chemical Industry.
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Comment: For a subject like this, the tests are WP:GNG and then WP:BASIC. So ideally three features in newspapers detailing at length the subject's whole career. It does not have to be precisely that, but it does have to be significant coverage in a reliable source. It is not what the subject says or writes, it is more about what other people say or write about the subject. It would be quite unusual for someone of this profile to have an article in Wikipedia - if they did it would be due some notability proven by sources.If the submitting editor knows or has a connection to the subject, then this must be declared: see WP:COI. Also read WP:YFA. ChrysGalley (talk) 10:12, 26 December 2025 (UTC)
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