Chandler Morse

Chandler C. Morse serves as Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Workday, a leading provider of enterprise cloud services delivering financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications. Mr. Morse stood up the Washington, DC office for the company in late 2018 and was elevated to lead Workday’s U.S. and Global policy teams as well as Sustainability practice and reporting. Workday play a leadership role in privacy and data flows, artificial intelligence, workforce, sustainability, cybersecurity, and inclusion issues.

Prior to joining Workday, Mr. Morse spent more than a decade on Capitol Hill, working for Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) for more than thirteen years. He served as the Chief of Staff and was the Senator’s legislative director prior to that. He oversaw the legislative staff in Washington, DC and directly handled issues related to Senator Flake’s work on select international trade, U.S.-Cuba policy, immigration reform (including high-skilled immigration), and homeland security. Mr. Morse handled immigration during the introduction of the STRIVE Act in the House and was the primary negotiator for the Senator during the passage of S. 744, comprehensive immigration reform legislation, in the Senate.

Before assuming his role as Legislative Director in the Flake Senate office, Mr. Morse served as a Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director in then-Congressman Flake’s office, starting as a legislative assistant in May of 2005. In addition, Mr. Morse served as Policy Director for the Congressional Western Caucus from May 2005 through October 2007. He joined Congressman Flake’s staff after serving as a regulatory policy analyst for the National Association of Home Builders for two years. He also worked for Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan, a Washington, DC engineering consulting firm.

Mr. Morse graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.S. in environmental policy and from the University of Maine with an M.S. in environmental science. Mr. Morse is the fifteenth member of his family, spanning three generations, to graduate from the University of Maine. He now lives in Baltimore with his wife Annie and their two children Parker and Talie and serves on the board of the National Immigration Forum.