Chip Israel
Chip currently serves on IES Committees (Illuminating Engineering Society).
Past Board of Directors and Past President of the IESNA, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.
Chip is also Past President of both, the IALD Education Trust (International Association of Lighting Designers) and the Designer’s Lighting Forum Los Angeles.
Chip Israel has been a lighting designer for over 38 years. In 1992, he founded LIGHTING DESIGN ALLIANCE, a full-service architectural lighting design firm, where he built a highly-select team of lighting design professionals who now serve a variety of clients worldwide. As Co-CEO and Founder, Chip works closely with the owner, design team, and manufacturers to ensure lighting systems are fully integrated with the architectural design and enhance the designer’s concepts.
He has been elected as a Fellow of both, the IALD, the International Association of Lighting Designers, and IES, Illuminating Engineering Society. Chip has received the Pennsylvania State University College of Engineering’s highest award, the Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Awards and Martin’s Professional Lighting Designer of the Year.
Chip is committed to promoting excellence in lighting design through education. As a leading industry spokesman, he has presented technical papers and educational seminars in over seventeen countries and lectured in dozens of universities.
Lighting Design Alliance has also been recognized by winning over 300 National and International design awards, including multiple awards for sustainable lighting design.