Gabi Calleja is an LGBTIQ rights activist in Malta.^[1] She read for a Masters in Youth and Community Studies at the University of Malta.^[2] From 2010 to 2019, she was the coordinator of the Malta Gay Rights Movement.^[3] As of 2014, she is co-chair of the Executive Board of ILGA Europe, a lesbian and gay advocacy group.^[4] In 2014 she spoke publicly in favor of Denmark's removing a law which had required transgender people to undergo sterilization before they were legally allowed to change their gender.^[5]

In addition to her work on LGBT rights, she is also a senior executive in the public sector in Malta, and has worked in the fields of teaching, drug prevention, training, community development, fundraising, and project management.^[2] In 2005, the “School Attendance Improvement” Report, a review of absenteeism from school in Malta, was published; she had been part of the group appointed to write it.^[2]

She received a 2012 International Women of Courage award.^[6]