Elling Martin Borgeraas

Borgeraas is a sociologist and specializes in the interconnection between consumption, living conditions and welfare. As a project manager, he has led the buildup of SIFO‘s Reference Budget for Consumer Expenditures, including the development consumer-based poverty measures. He has also worked in the area of personal finance, focusing on issues such as the prevention of financial problems among the chronically ill, personal finance programs in higher education, cross-country comparisons of money advice and debt advice services, and the role of finance in within-household gender and power negotiations. Other academic interests include the relationship between the consumer and citizen roles, market-based welfare and the dynamics involved in the relationship between investment, consumption and saving at the household level. Between 1999 and 2001, 2002 and 2009, and 2012 – 2016 Borgeraas worked as head of SIFO’s research section for studies on personal finance and consumption politics.