Lea Verou (Greek: Λία Βέρου) is a Greek-American computer scientist, front end web developer, speaker and author, originally from Lesbos, Greece.

[3] Verou is currently a research assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),[4] an elected participant in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Technical Architecture Group (TAG),[5] and an invited expert in the W3C CSS Working Group.

[11] Her talks are known[12][13] for their distinctive style involving live coding through a custom presentation framework[14] that she built to optimize the experience for the audience.

Her first book, CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems was published by O'Reilly Media in 2015.

[8][19] In spring 2018, she co-taught User Interface Design & Implementation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with David Karger and Amy X.