Ginsburgh was born in 1939 into an expatriate family: "My father was only a white Russian, and my mother an Austrian Jew".
He is former co-director of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES).
He is also member of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université catholique de Louvain.
[2] He wrote and edited a dozen books, including The Structure of Applied General Equilibrium, Cambridge, MA., MIT Press, 1997, with M. Keyzer,[3] and How Many Languages Do We Need, Princeton University Press, 2011 with Shlomo Weber,[4] and is the author or coauthor of over 180 papers on topics in applied and theoretical economics, including industrial organization and general equilibrium analysis.
[5] Ginsburgh is the author or coauthor of papers on topics in applied and theoretical economics, including industrial organization and general equilibrium analysis.