Born in Finland and educated in France, Jean-Jacques de Mesterton has been a professional adventurer, political advisor, and international facilitator. He has fought terrorists in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. One branch of his family has lived in Colorado, while the others are located in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Scotland.

Interested in the French political process, he got involved as a foreign observer during Paris mayor Jacques Chirac's campaign for the presidency of France, in 1981. Between 1981 and 1992, he raised funds for the arts, was a director of a manufacturers' representative firm in Paris, hosted a call-in talk show at KOA Radio in Denver, and worked as an international business advisor. Starting in 1992, Jean-Jacques de Mesterton served as an envoy for the Tissot Foundation, based in LeLocle, Switzerland. The Tissot Foundation applied high technology solutions to problem-solving in second and third world countries. His book, The Succession, published in 1999, is in large part based on his first-hand experiences with professional soldiers, thieves, mercenaries, intelligence operatives, tycoons, and princes. In 2001, Jean-Jacques de Mesterton joined the board of the Havsudden Foundation, becoming one of its two appointed counselors. The foundation controls resources in the European Community and Africa.