Hong Kong Academy

Board Members (Retired)

The following are the Directors in alphabetical order:

Priya Bhatia
B.A. in Economics and Computer Science from Rutgers University. She worked in Information Technology both as a consultant and with private firms. Prior to moving to HK, she served on the Board of ECLC International School in Seoul for 2 1/2 years, with 2 of those years as Chairman of the Board of Management. She has two children at the school.

Bill Cotter
B.A. from Boston College and MBA from both Columbia and London Business School. Bill is the CEO of CIGNA Worldwide Life Insurance Company and CIGNA Worldwide General Insurance Company with over 300 employees here in Hong Kong. He has two children that attend HKA

Brett Goebel
BSc (Hons) and PhD in Micro- and Molecular Biology from the University of Queensland. Brett has held various academic, research, design and management positions since completing his PhD research in 1994, including Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and Manager Environment for the Australian Magnesium Corporation. For the last 5 years, Brett has worked for GHD, Australia's largest engineering design and professional services firm of over 6,000 people. He is currently Operations Manager for GHD's China business and a director of GHD (Hong Kong) Limited. His three children attend HKA in grades 3, 5 and 8. Brett has previous educational management experience gained from serving 2 years as President of the Graceville Community Kindergarten and Preschool, a private community-managed early childhood preschool in Brisbane Australia, with a similar, inclusive educational philosophy to that of HKA.