Adnan Badran

Adnan Badran (Arabic عدنان بدران, DMG ʿ Adnan Badran; * December 15, 1935 in Jerash ) is a Jordanian academics and politicians. From 7 April to 28 November 2005 he was the Prime Minister of Jordan.

Life

He is the brother of Mudar Badran, the former Prime Minister of Jordan and the Jordanian intelligence chief in the 1970s. He studied natural sciences in 1959 from the University of Oklahoma in the United States. 1961-1963 he obtained his MA and Ph.D. from Michigan State University, which honored him in 2007 with an honorary doctorate. He is married and speaks Arabic, English and French.

Career

With 25 years was Adnan Badran three years Research Assistant at Michigan State University before he was from 1963 to 1966 physiologist and biochemist at the United Fruit Research Laboratories for U.S. and Central America. Finally, Adnan Badran went to the Faculty of the University of Jordan and was there for 10 years worked. From 1976 to 1986 he was then a professor of biology at the Yarmuk University (Jordan) and the Jordan University of Science and Technology and also the President of Yarmouk University and founding president and founder of the scientific and technical campus (JUST University, Jordan).

In 1986 he became the General Secretary of the highest College of Science and Technology in Jordan and in 1988 and 1989, Agriculture Minister Minister of Education. Then began an international career by Adnan Badran. One by one, he was appointed General Director Assistant of Science at UNESCO in Paris and then to the provisional Deputy Director-General of UNESCO. Then he was then from 1994-1998 Deputy Director-General of UNESCO.

Since 1998, Adnan Badran, President of Philadelphia University in Jordan. In 2005 he was prime minister of his country.