Mahdi al-Mashat (Arabic: مهدي المشاط, romanized: Mahdī al-Mashāṭ; born 1986) is a Yemeni politician who has served as the chairman of the Supreme Political Council and a military leader from the Houthi movement.

[2] He hails from the remote hamlet Ould Nouar in the Ḥaydan district, Saada Governorate, an area where many northern Yemeni separatists come from.

Since youth, he has been acquainted with one of the leaders of the Houthi rebellion, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, also a key figure in the Zaidi movement since 2004.

From 2014 on, al-Mashat was the director of al-Houthis office, his spokesman and representative in peace talks with the United Nations, among other posts.

According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, he demanded financial, military as well as logistical concessions, among them points that had been crucial in earlier talks.