The Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) is a United Kingdom UK and Ireland professional engineering institution founded in 1924 as the Association of Public Lighting Engineers,[1] later known as the Institution of Lighting Engineers, and taking its present name in 2010.[2] It is licensed by the Engineering Council to assess candidates for inclusion on its Register of professional Engineers.[3] The Institute's address is Regent House, Regent Place, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 2PN.[2] It has about 2000 individual members [1] and 120 company or organization members.[4] The President is Alan Jaques and the Chief Executive is Richard Frost.[1] It is registered in the UK as a Private company limited by guarantee without share capital (number 00227499).[2] Its principal object is "To act as a learned Society for engineers in the lighting and allied industries and as a technical and educative body for the public dissemination of technical information and the laying down of standards of qualification."[5]