Haitao WEN was born in 1975 in Jilin, China. She was awarded a Bachelor degree of economics in Jilin Agricultural University in 1997. In 2000 she was awarded a Master degree of management in Jilin Agricultural University. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD in Economics from Jilin University, China. In 2009 she received a one year grant from EPN for postdoctoral research in Department of Transport and Logistics Management at WU Wien Austria.
She had a special experience after she graduated in June 2000. She took service to be a civilian drillmaster in Quartermaster University of People’s Liberation Army of China. And then, she began to teach and research logistics management, especially focus on national economy mobilization and defense acquisition management. She received some research project which funded by Ministry of Logistics or university. But in 2004, due to large-scale disarmament in China, her inaugural university was abrogated from Army and most of the employees were employed by Jilin University. Fortunately, Logistics research direction was remained by creating Logistics Department. In 2008, she got Associate Professor’s position. Therefore, her main research field still focuses on performance evaluation and demand chain management in agri-food supply chain, as well as procurement management and supply chain optimization. 
Dr. Wen received the best paper award of Chinese journal of management science in 2010. Dr.Wen can be contacted at: wenht@jlu.edu.cn.