Alta Schutte is a SHARP Professor and Principal Theme Lead of Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine at the University of New South Wales and Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, Australia. She has honorary appointments at the North-West University and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Professor Schutte is an NHMRC Investigator Grant Leadership Fellow with extensive experience as Chief Investigator in population-based studies and clinical trials with a focus on raised blood pressure and hypertension. She has published >450 scientific papers and supervised >85 postgraduate students. She is a Trustee of the May Measurement Month blood pressure screening initiative, an invited author of the Lancet Commission of Hypertension, and senior author of the 2020 International Society of Hypertension Global Hypertension Guidelines. Alta has received several awards, including the 2023 Peter Sleight Award of Clinical Research Excellence from the World Hypertension League, and the 2022 Harriet Dustan Award by the Hypertension Council of the American Heart Association.

She serves as Associate Editor of Hypertension and is on the Editorial Board of several cardiovascular journals. She is the Company Secretary of the Australian Cardiovascular Alliance, Co-Chair of the National Hypertension Taskforce of Australia, and Past President of the International Society of Hypertension.