Aili McConnon was born in Toronto, Canada. Raised by two doctors and long fascinated by Jane Goodall and the fact that chimpanzees share 98.4% of the same DNA as humans, she has studied science alongside literature for years thanks to the freedom of a liberal arts education. 

Estonian was her first language followed by English, French and Spanish. A graduate of Princeton University, Cambridge University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and Business Week Magazine. Her first book, an anthology called Blooming Through the Ashes which she completed with the help of a Princeton ReachOut ’56 Fellowship, is coming out with Rutgers University Press in 2007.

Now she is excited to be tracking technology, innovation and science for The Science of Sex and for Business Week Magazine and Businessweek.com where she is a reporter. She is also a senior editor for Topic Magazine (www.topicmag.com). She loves traveling, yoga, cross-country skiing, mountain biking and running.