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Grahame Bulfield CBE is an Emeritus Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh and a Consultant in Biotechnology. From 2002 to 2008 he was Vice Principal and Head of the College Science and Engineering of the University of Edinburgh, and is a former Director of the Roslin Institute.

From 1981, Professor Bulfield was Head of Genetics at the Poultry Research Centre at Roslin which later merged with the Animal Breeding Research Organisation and with the Institute of Animal Physiology at Cambridge to form the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research.  He became Head of the Research Centre at Roslin in 1988 and steered it to its re-establishment as the independent Roslin Institute in 1993 when he became its first Director. 

He has served on a wide range of Government Committees and Working Parties, and has been a Non-Executive Director of nine companies and an advisor and consultant to both a US and UK biotechnology venture capital fund as well as a UK biotech company.

Professor Bulfield was appointed an Honorary Professor of The University of Edinburgh in 1990, to a Personal Chair of Animal Genetics in 2002 and elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1992.  In 1999, he was appointed Honorary Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.  He was awarded a CBE for services to Animal Genetics in the 2001 New Year Honours.