Achim Dilling was born on August 31, 1973, in Eschwege in northern Hesse.
He studied business administration in Göttingen from 1995 to 1999 and received his doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at Georg August University in Göttingen in 2002.
This was followed by positions at Aareal Bank AG in Wiesbaden and K+S Aktiengesellschaft in Kassel.
From 2006 to 2016, Dilling was head of the teaching unit for general business administration at the University of Passau, during which time he received several awards for good teaching. He has been Chancellor of the University of Passau since December 2016.
Dilling is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Student Services Association of Lower Bavaria/Upper Palatinate, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Passau University Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Board of AOK-Bayern, among other positions.
He is also a member of the Association of Chancellors of German Universities, where he is a member of the working group on university finances.
