Jacques Braunstein (August 30, 1931 – November 27, 2009) was a Venezuelan economist, publicist and disc jockey.A native of Bucharest, Romania, Braunstein studied violin at age six and later, at age thirteen, took up the double bass. Raised in a Jewish home, he moved to Brazil with his family before settling in Caracas, Venezuela in the early 1950s, becoming a Venezuelan citizen in 1955.