Martin C. Henson (born 14 October 1954) is an English computer scientist based at the University of Essex.

[1] He is dean for international affairs and is affiliated to the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering.

Henson's academic work is in the area of formal methods to aid software engineering.

[5][6] Henson has been a Fellow of the British Computer Society since 2009[7] and holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

Professor Henson has given keynote addresses on outcomes-based curriculum development,[11] in Saudi Arabia, on institutional research strategic planning[12] in Indonesia, and on the internationalisation of higher education[13] in China.