Former senior officer of gendarmerie, certified HEC Paris, and doctor of geopolitics of the French Institute of Geopolitics Paris VIII. He founded and runs the Arkaliz geopolitical consulting firm for public and private executives, and the security audit firm for municipalities, Citypol.

Jean-Charles Antoine holds a geopolitics thesis (University Paris 8) on the trafficking of small arms and light weapons from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans.