Robert Moutrie was named vice president for advocacy in October 2025 in recognition of his outstanding work on behalf of California Chamber of Commerce members. Since January 2024, he had been serving as a senior policy advocate. He joined the CalChamber team in March 2019 as a policy advocate. Moutrie leads CalChamber advocacy on workplace safety, legal reform, tourism, insurance, immigration and unemployment insurance. As CalChamber's expert on occupational safety issues, Moutrie also is an expert on Cal/OSHA’s regulatory process, and works closely with Cal/OSHA staff to make California’s regulations more feasible for businesses. He has represented employers’ concerns with Cal/OSHA during the drafting of the state’s emergency and nonemergency wildfire smoke regulations, COVID-19 emergency and nonemergency regulations, and indoor heat regulation. Moutrie earned a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. with honors from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. See full bio.