Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi (Arabic: رشاد محمد العليمي, romanized: Rashād Muḥammad al-ʻUlaymī; born 15 January 1954) is a Yemeni politician, and the chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council since April 2022.

[4] On 3 June 2011, during the Battle of Sanaa, al-Alimi was wounded along with Ali Abdullah Saleh during an attack on the Al-Nahdin Mosque in the Presidential Palace.

He left the city again as a result of the Houthi takeover in Yemen[2] and began living in Saudi Arabia in 2015.

He also promised to restore or improve basic services in the city such as power supplies and announced several planned projects with funding from the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen such as a 30 megawatt power plant, a medical school and educational complex at Taiz University and improved roads along the Heijat Al-Abed route.

[11] During a briefing with journalists in Riyadh in January 2024, al-Alimi stated that the airstrike campaign launched earlier in the month by the United States and the United Kingdom against the Houthis was "defensive", claiming that the solution to the Red Sea crisis "is to eliminate the Houthis’ military capabilities.”[12] Al-Alimi hailed US President Donald Trump's re-designation of the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization on 23 January 2025, calling it "key to accountability and a step toward peace and stability in Yemen and the region.