Maya Forstater

Maya Forstater is a figure I find genuinely hard to look away from, and I mean that as a kind of respect. A British tax expert trained at Newcastle, she became known not for her economics but for losing work over her views and then taking the fight to court. The substance of that dispute is fiercely contested, and I won't pretend it isn't. What strikes me, regardless of where one lands, is the sheer refusal to go quiet. People who absorb that much pressure without backing down command a grudging attention from me, whatever side of the argument you sit on.

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Name (English)

Maya Forstater

Name (Japanese)

マヤ・フォーステーター

Reading

まや・ふぉーすてーたー

Born

July 3, 1973 (age 53)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

Occupation

researcher / writer / economist

University

Newcastle University

• Official sitehttps://hiyamaya.net
• Xhttps://x.com/MForstater
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya%20Forstater
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106634958

Tags

• researcher
• writer
• economist

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.