A former freelancer at Le Canard enchaîné,[2] Roland Jacquard chairs the International Observatory of Terrorism,[3] a non-governmental organization of which he is the only member, "without publications, without a website, without a postal address and without any legal existence" writes Le Monde in 2015,[4] as well as the Sentinel newsletter, created in 1986, which offers “awareness and training sessions” on the terrorist issue.
[4] A regular guest on the program ‘C dans l'air’, Roland Jacquard is also the author of essays on Osama bin Laden and terrorism.
In 2001, he enjoyed major bookstore success with Au nom d'Ossama bin Laden,[5] an essay devoted to the networks of Islamist terrorism.
According to the journalists Didier Bigo, Laurent Bonelli and Thomas Deltombe, the comments made by Roland Jacquard as an expert in the media would be questionable.
A series of documents leaked in 2023 alleged that following 2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis, Jacquard became a mediator between the United Arab Emirates and a Swiss-based economic intelligence company, Alp Services.