Christopher Mark Wise (born 1956)[2] is an English academic and engineer.
In 1999 he left Arup and co-founded Expedition Engineering together with Seán Walsh.
In 2008 Wise, Walsh and Ed McCann, the three remaining shareholders in Expedition Engineering, gave the company over to the benefit of its employees, becoming the Useful Simple Trust.
He is co-director of the Royal Designers Summer School and has been co-presenter at the BBC's reconstruction of several pieces of ancient technology.
Since 2012 Wise has spent two days a week at University College London (UCL) as Professor of Civil Engineering Design.