Christopher Jewett Welles (December 11, 1937 – June 19, 2010) was an American business journalist who wrote for Life, BusinessWeek, The Saturday Evening Post and the Los Angeles Times, in addition to a number of books on business topics. Welles headed the Walter Bagehot Fellowship Program in Business and Economics Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He received the Gerald Loeb Award for Magazines for the story "Is More Less? Is Faster Slower? Is Bigger Smaller?". He was also recognized at the National Magazine Awards.