Georg Baltes studied industrial engineering with focus on logistics & supply chain management as well as robotics & automation at Technische Universitat Darmstadt in Germany. Afterwards, he joined the Chair of Global Supply Chain Management at Tongji University in Shanghai as a research associate where he lectured and oversaw various industry projects. Simultaneously, he wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hans-Christian Pfohl from Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Supply Chain and Network Management) where he received his doctoral degree in July 2014.