Adnan Badran

{{Short description|Jordanian academic and former prime minister}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Adnan Badran

| native_name = عدنان بدران

| image = Adnan Badran portrait.jpg

| order = Prime Minister of Jordan

| monarch = Abdullah II

| term_start = 6 April 2005

| term_end = 27 November 2005

| predecessor = Faisal al-Fayez

| successor = Marouf al-Bakhit

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1935|12|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Jerash, Transjordan, British Empire

| party = Independent

| profession = Biologist

| spouse = Maha Badran

}}

Adnan Badran ({{langx|ar|عدنان بدران }}; born 15 December 1935) is a Jordanian politician and academic. He was the 35th Prime Minister of Jordan from 6 April 2005 to 27 November 2005.

Early life and education

Badran was born in Jerash, Jordan (then located in the Emirate of Transjordan, a part of the British Empire) on 15 December 1935 to Palestinian parents.{{cite web|title=Badran, Adnan|url=http://rulers.org/indexb1.html|publisher=Rulers|access-date=13 March 2013}} His father was from Nablus in Palestine. He received his bachelor of science from Oklahoma State University (1959) and his MS and PhD degrees from Michigan State University (1963).{{Cite web|title=Adnan Badran {{!}} PALAST|url=http://palast.ps/en/profile/adnan-badran|access-date=2021-07-20|website=The Palestine Academy for Science and Technology|language=en}} Badran's brother, Mudar Badran, was a politician in Jordan and served as prime minister several times.

Professor and politics

In 1987, Badran was appointed first Secretary General of the country's Higher Council for Science and Technology, the president of which is Prince Hassan.{{Cite web|title=Detailed Curriculum Vitae Prof. Adnan Badran|url=https://www.uop.edu.jo/En/AboutUOP/TheHigherConsultantoftheUniversity/Documents/Curriculum%20Vitae%20-%20Prof.%20Adnan%20Badran%20(Detailed).pdf|url-status=live|access-date=25 February 2021|website=University of Petra|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613030022/https://www.uop.edu.jo/En/AboutUOP/TheHigherConsultantoftheUniversity/Documents/Curriculum%20Vitae%20-%20Prof.%20Adnan%20Badran%20%28Detailed%29.pdf |archive-date=13 June 2021 }}

He was agriculture minister and education minister briefly during the late 1980s. During the 1990s he became president of the Arab Academy of Sciences and the Philadelphia University of Jordan, positions that he still holds. From 1994 to 1998, he was deputy director of UNESCO.

Badran was appointed prime minister on 7 April 2005 by King Abdullah II as part of a new government which was to be more reformist than previous governments.{{Cite web|title=Jordan (09/05)|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/jordan/54165.htm|access-date=2021-02-25|website=U.S. Department of State}} Badran also became defense minister in the new government.{{Cite web|title=Jordan (09/05)|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/jordan/54165.htm|access-date=2021-02-10|website=U.S. Department of State}} After seven months, however, he and his government resigned over the slow progress of reforms and the frustration caused by the hotel bombings in Amman on 9 November 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.ias-worldwide.org/profiles/prof9.htm |title=Prof. Adnan Badran |work=IAS |access-date=9 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813104935/http://www.ias-worldwide.org/profiles/prof9.htm |archive-date=13 August 2009 }}

Badran was the president of Petra University.[http://www.uop.edu.jo Petra University] In September 2014, he became Chancellor at the university.{{Cite web|title=University of Petra {{!}} Professor Adnan Badran|url=https://www.uop.edu.jo/en/Administration/Pages/DrAdnanBadran.aspx|access-date=2021-02-10|website=www.uop.edu.jo}} He was the president of Yarmouk University. Badran is a Fellow and former Vice-President of The World Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web|title=Prof. Adnan Badran – IAS|url=https://iasworld.org/fellows-cpt/prof-adnan-badran/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-24|website=Islamic world academy of sciences|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724165700/https://iasworld.org/fellows-cpt/prof-adnan-badran/ |archive-date=24 July 2021 }} In July 2009, Badran with Moneef R. Zou'bi published the UNESCO Science Report 2010 on the Arab States.{{Cite web|title=UNESCO Science Report The Arab States Adnan Badran and Moneef R. Zou'bi|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266565083|access-date=2021-02-25|website=ResearchGate|language=en}} Badran was awarded Honorary Doctorates by Sungkyunkwan University (1981), Michigan State University (2007), and Yarmouk University (2014). He is the author of 120 publications, including 22 books, and holds 4 patents.{{Cite web|title=Adnan Badran|url=http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7pOkhVoAAAAJ&hl=en|access-date=2021-07-24|website=scholar.google.com}}

Personal life

Badran resides in Dabouq. He has six children and eight grandchildren. On 1 April 2019, Badran's wife, Maha,{{Cite web|title=Jordanian Prime Minister Adnan Badran's wife, Maha, meets with Peru's...|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/jordanian-prime-minister-adnan-badrans-wife-maha-meets-with-news-photo/52999440|access-date=2021-07-24|website=Getty Images|date=30 May 2005 |language=en-us}} died after a long illness at age 67.

References

External links

[http://dc.library.okstate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ostate/id/7693 Oral History Interview with Adnan Badran], Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the OSU Library
[http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/unesco-science-report-2010-the-current-status-of-science-around-the-world-en.pdf UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT 2010] The Current Status of Science around the World