Monarch King Hussein Preceded by Zaid al-Rifai Succeeded by Taher al-Masri Preceded by Kassim al-Rimawi Education Damascus University | Monarch King Hussein Role Politician Preceded by Zaid ibn Shaker Name Mudar Badran Siblings Adnan Badran | |
Preceded by Mudar Badran(first term) Similar People Adnan Badran, Taher al‑Masri, Abdelsalam al‑Majali, Abdul Karim al‑Kabariti, Ahmad Obeidat | ||
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Mudar Mohammad Ayesh Badran (Arabic: مضر بدران) (born 1934) is a former Jordanian politician and government minister, and starting 1993, a Jordanian industrialist mainly in steel manufacturing.
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- Synd 4 4 77 prime minister of jordan mudar badran opens new part of aqaba docks
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Career
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. He was a close associate of Jordanian King Hussein.
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)
Personal life
Badran's younger brother, Adnan Badran is also a Jordanian politician.
Badran resides in Abdoun with his wife, Mo'mina. Together, they have two sons and three daughters. His daughter, Reem Badran, is a former deputy in the Jordanian House of Representative.
Phasing out of political life, Badran headed to the private sector where he started a steel company; Jordan Steel P.L.C. since 1993, later on becoming Jordan's leading steel manufacturer.