Ruth Baldacchino is from Malta and has extensive experience in community organising, international LGBTIQ activism and LGBTIQ research. Their human rights work started with the Malta Gay Rights Movement, where Ruth served on the Executive Committee for several years. Ruth was elected ILGA World Co-Secretary General in 2014 and has served on a number of boards in the past years including IGLYO, ILGA World and ILGA-Europe. Prior to joining Astraea, Ruth worked at the Maltese Ministry for Civil Liberties in the areas of human rights and integration, where they were actively part of the process towards the passing of the groundbreaking Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act, and strategies/policies on trans and intersex students and migrants’ integration in Malta. They have been closely engaged with intersex activists, particularly through the co-facilitation and coordination of ILGA’s International Intersex Fora, for the past 4 years. Ruth holds an M.A. in Women’s Studies from University College Dublin and a B.A. (Honours) in Sociology from University of Malta. They are a PhD candidate in Sociology/Gender Studies, and lecture Queer Studies at the University of Malta.
