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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 1992 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. Badran also became [[defense minister]] in the new government. 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 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813104935/http://www.ias-worldwide.org/profiles/prof9.htm |archivedate=13 August 2009 }}</ref>
Badran served as the president of [[Petra University]],<ref>[http://www.uop.edu.jo Petra University]</ref> one of the leading private universities in [[Amman]], Jordan. In September 2014, he became Chancellor at the university.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}
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