Managing Director William W. Ginsberg

William W. Ginsberg became Managing Director of the Federal Housing Finance Board April 16, 1997. As Managing Director, Mr. Ginsberg serves as the Finance Board's Chief Operating Officer, in charge of the day-to-day operations of the agency.

Will Ginsberg brings to the Finance Board a long career specializing in local economic development. As a chief executive in the public and not-for-profit sectors, a practicing attorney, and a senior government official at both the local and national levels, he has helped promote public/private partnerships to create community development projects.

A graduate of the Columbia University School of Law in New York, Ginsberg served from 1984 to 1988 as development administrator of the City of New Haven, Connecticut, a position equivalent to that of a deputy mayor, where he was in charge of all housing and economic development activities of city government. From 1988 to 1994 he was president and chief executive officer of the Science Park Development Corporation, a major public-private economic development project in New Haven focusing on the development of technology-based businesses.

In February 1994, Ginsberg was appointed Assistant Secretary for Economic Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce, in charge of its Economic Development Administration, a national program of economic development assistance to local public and not-for-profit institutions serving urban and rural areas of economic distress. Fifteen months later in April 1995, he was named Chief of Staff to the late Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown.

Ginsberg also has international development experience. For the one year until coming to the Finance Board, he served as acting Assistant Secretary in the International Trade Administration of the U. S. Department of Commerce. During May 1996 and April 1997, he actively promoted international investment by U.S. businesses in selected areas of the world and helped formulate U.S. international trade and commercial policy, including monitoring compliance by foreign governments with trade agreements.

A graduate with honors from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Ginsberg has done graduate study in history at Cambridge University in England. He lives in Washington D.C. with his wife, Ellen Kelly Ginsberg, and their two children.

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