Martin J. Silverstein

[5] President George W. Bush nominated Silverstein as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay just prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

[1] While serving as United States Ambassador to Uruguay from 2001 to 2005, he fostered positive bilateral relations[6] allowing Uruguayan President Batlle to "use his good relation with U.S. President George W. Bush to help obtain $1.5 billion in credit to stave off default," pending receipt of an IMF loan.

He also engineered the reopening of U.S. markets to banned Uruguayan commodities and fostered the signing of an Open Skies Agreement and the first Bilateral Investment Treaty of the Bush Administration.

[11] Silverstein was born in New York City in 1954[1][3] and grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey and Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania.

[14][15] Silverstein is the current appointee of United States Senator Pat Toomey to the Federal Judicial Nomination Advisory Panel (E.D.

He previously served United States Senators Rick Santorum and Arlen Specter in the same role on the then titled ‘Federal Judicial Nominating Commission’.

[27] The fifteen Trustees are an independent administrative board of the Commonwealth with exclusive investment power and management control of the $54 billion public pension fund.

[3] He is a member of the Council of American Ambassadors[33] and a long-time supporter of the Northwest Women's Shelter in Washington, D.C.[34] He speaks Spanish and Hebrew.