Dieter Pape was born in 1949. In his capacity of auditor and tax consultant he is a senior partner within the partnership Pape & Co. GmbH, auditing company, tax accountants, Munich and Traunstein. Since 1975 he has been engaged in the consultancy of medium-sized companies in the fields of management, commercial law and taxes.

Since 1989 he has assumed managing board and advisory board functions within corporations as well as in family-owned enterprises of different legal forms. Dieter Pape is the chairman of the board of a German real estate corporation and is acting as trustee for the investors in real estate companies. He has held the position of chairman of the board of URA Rating Agentur AG, Munich, since July 1998.

As founding member of the management board of the BdRA Bundesverband der Ratinganalysten und Ratingadvisor e.V., (formation in 1999), as member of the DVFA-Kommission für Ratingstandards, and in his capacity of chairman of the working group “Input” since 2000, Dieter Pape has been taking a part in the establishment of a uniform standard for the rating of medium-sized companies.