Lea Verou (Greek: ??a ?????; born June 13, 1986) is a front end web developer, speaker and author, originally from Greece.
Verou is currently a Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL, in David Karger’s Haystack group and an Invited Expert in the W3C CSS Working Group.Verou has written a book on advanced CSS for O’Reilly, worked for W3C/MIT, given over 60 invited talks around the world, released several open source projects, and co-founded a Greek startup called Fresset Ltd (which she left in 2011), among other projects.
She has written articles for some of the biggest industry media, including A List Apart and Smashing Magazine.