---
id: people/francois-bousquet
about:
  label: François Bousquet
  description: >-
    CIRAD researcher in Montpellier who works on agent-based models of
    social-ecological systems and was a signatory of the 2003 charter of
    companion modelling.
  tags:
    - agent-based
    - companion modelling
    - participatory modelling
    - Cormas
person:
  affiliation: CIRAD
  role: modeller
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: 'Our Companion Modelling Approach (Barreteau and others, JASSS, 2003)'
      url: 'https://www.jasss.org/6/2/1.html'
    - title: 'Bousquet, François (1963-.... ; sociologue de l''environnement) (IdRef)'
      url: 'https://www.idref.fr/074747835'
    - title: Francois Bousquet (Resilience Alliance members)
      url: 'https://www.resalliance.org/membership/9'
    - title: Cormas (CIRAD)
      url: 'https://cormas.cirad.fr/'
  created: '2026-11-02'
  reviewed: '2026-11-02'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
---
François Bousquet, born in 1963, is a researcher at CIRAD in Montpellier who works in the complexity sciences.[^2] His 1994 doctoral thesis at Lyon 1 used multi-agent simulation to study fishing in the central delta of the Niger.[^2] By his own account he spent the next ten years on agent-based modelling as a tool for transdisciplinary research on social-ecological systems, and the ten after that on companion modelling, a method for social learning and collective action.[^3] He later took a master's in the sociology and anthropology of intercultural relations, and he co-founded the Agropolis forum-theatre troupe in Montpellier.[^2,3]

He is a co-author of the papers that describe Cormas, CIRAD's agent-based platform for representing the relations between societies and their environment, which is free under the MIT licence.[^4] He co-edited the proceedings of the third international workshop on multi-agent-based simulation, MABS 2002 (Springer, 2003).[^2]

He is one of the twelve signatories of the 2003 charter of [companion modelling](/communication/companion-modelling/). The charter traces the approach to a 1999 chapter by Bousquet, Olivier Barreteau and colleagues on multi-agent simulation in environmental modelling.[^1]