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An excerpt from our leadership assessment of Houthi leader Abdul-Malik’s key personality traits and how these shape his decision-making.
Prepared using Margaret Hermann’s methodology for political personality profiling, which seeks to understand how a leader’s beliefs, values and attitudes shape their decision-making and predict future actions based on past responses and behavioural patterns.
Name: Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
Position: Leader of the Houthi movement
Age: 43–45 (b.1980–82)
Place of Birth: Saadah, Yemen
Place of Residence: Dahyan Governorate, Yemen
An assessment of Abdul Malik al-Houthi’s key leadership traits based on a 31,670-word dataset from five speeches and interviews with Al-Houthi in Arabic between January 2015 and March 2025.
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