Wenwu Zhao is a geography professor at Beijing Normal University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Land Resources Management and Master’s degree in Soil Science from Shandong Agricultural University in 1998 and 2001, and his Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. He was a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis from 2015 to 2016. He has been working at Beijing Normal University since 2004. His research interests are land use, ecosystem services, and sustainability.