Background
Badran was born in Jerash, Jordan in 1934.
politician Prime Minister of Jordan
Badran was born in Jerash, Jordan in 1934.
He studied at the Damascus University and graduated as a lawyer
Badran started his career as a young officer in the Jordanian army. Later, he served as the secret service Director in the 1970s, which was when the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was facing a civil war against the "Feda"eyn". Following this troubled time he became the chief of the Hashemite Royal Court.
He also served as a Minister of Education of Jordan.
He later became the prime minister of Jordan from 1976 to 1984 with a brief interruption from 1979 until 1980. He was appointed again Prime Minister on 4 December 1989, replacing Sharif Zaid bin Shaker who resigned from office.
Badran"s third term lasted until 1991, where democracy was returned to the Jordanian people, and the senate gained its legitimate powers again after two decades with no parliamentarian elections. He served more than eight years as the prime minister of Jordan, which made him the second prime minister of Jordan to spend such a long time.
He also served as foreign minister from 1976 to 1979 and as defense minister for most of the time that he was prime minister.
In 1993, he was appointed in the Jordanian senate. In 2011, he was given and honorary PH.D in economics from the Hashemite university. Badran was the target of a failed assassination attempt in Amman in February 1981 by the Syrian Defense Companies also known as Defense Brigades (in Arabic سرايا الدفاع).
National Consultative Council since 1979.