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==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 bin Talal|Prince Hassan]].<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref>
Professor Badran also served as 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
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. Badran also became [[defense minister]] in the new government.<ref>{{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}}</ref> After seven months, however, he and his government resigned over the slow progress of reforms and the frustration caused by the [[2005 Amman bombings|hotel bombings]] in Amman on 9 November 2005.<ref name="urlProf. Adnan Badran">{{cite web|url=http://www.ias-worldwide.org/profiles/prof9.htm |title=Prof. Adnan Badran |work=IAS |accessdate=9 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813104935/http://www.ias-worldwide.org/profiles/prof9.htm |archivedate=13 August 2009 }}</ref>
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