The purpose of the Strategic plan is to formulate the mid- to long-term ambitions of Study Committee D1, “Materials and Emerging Technologies” and it will be used for the planning of the activities of the SC and the related Working Groups and Task Forces. Furthermore the Strategic Plan will be used to keep and extend our knowledge base and the competency of our members, in order to be able to support our clients with a basic engineering background in the field of electrical materials, diagnostic systems and emerging technologies. The latter ambition needs a close co-operation with the other study committees of CIGRE, since SC D1 acts as a horizontal committee in this respect.