Adnan Badran

Adnan Badran (1970)

Adnan Badran ( Arabic عدنان بدران, DMG ʿAdnān Badrān ; * December 15, 1935 in Jerasch ) is a Jordanian academic and politician. From April 7th to November 28th, 2005 he was Prime Minister of Jordan .

Life

He is the brother of Mudar Badran , the former Prime Minister of Jordan and head of the Jordanian secret service in the 1970s. He studied science in 1959 at the University of Oklahoma in the USA . 1961-1963 he made his Masters or Doctorate from Michigan State University , which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2007 . He is married and speaks Arabic , English and French .

Career

At 25, Adnan Badran was a research assistant at Michigan State University for three years before becoming a physiologist and biochemist at United Fruit Research Laboratories for the United States and Central America from 1963 to 1966 . Eventually Adnan Badran went to the Science Faculty of the University of Jordan and worked there for 10 years. From 1976 to 1986 he was professor of biology at Yarmuk University (Jordan) and the Jordan University of Science and Technology and at the same time President of Yarmuk University and founding president and founder of the scientific and technical campus (JUST University, Jordan).

In 1986 he was promoted to general secretary of the highest college for science and technology in Jordan, and in 1988 he became Minister of Agriculture and in 1989 Minister of Education. Then Adnan Badran began an international career. Successively, he was appointed Assistant Director General for Science at UNESCO in Paris and then Temporary Deputy Director General of UNESCO. He then was Deputy Director General at UNESCO from 1994 to 1998.

Since 1998, Adnan Badran has been President of Philadelphia University in Jordan. In 2005 he was Prime Minister of his country.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of Honorary Doctorates from Michigan State University

predecessor	Office	successor
Faisal al-Fayiz	Prime Minister of Jordan April 7, 2005–28. November 2005	Maruf al-Bachit