Werner Hosewinckel Christie (born 26 April 1949) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

He was Norway's first Minister of Health from 1992 to 1995, serving in Gro Harlem Brundtland's third cabinet.

Christie served as the first Chair of the steering group of the World Health Organization's Stop TB program (a global public-private partnership).

In 2001 he started his own full-time consulting business, World Health Connections, focusing on entrepreneurship and investment strategies in medical technology and biotechnology, as well as health care development and consulting.

He was appointed in May 2004 as Science and Technology Counsellor for the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing, China, where his work is mainly focused on energy, environmental, building, medical, marine and biological sciences and technologies as well as welfare and health reform issues.