Zack Polanski

Polanski was active in the Liberal Democrats. He stood in the Barnet and Camden constituency and was fifth on the London-wide list for the party in the 2016 London Assembly election.[2] He then left the party and joined the Greens in 2017. He stood as the Green candidate in the Cities of London and Westminster parliamentary constituency at the 2019 general election and came in fourth.[7] Prior to his election to the London Assembly, he became treasurer of the Jewish Greens.[8]

On 6 May 2021, Polanski was elected a Member of the London Assembly, having been third on the Green Party's London-wide list. He also stood in the West Central constituency, where he came third,[9] and for a Westminster Council by-election, where he came fourth,[10] on the same day. In the new Assembly, Polanski was elected to be the chair of the Environment committee and to be on the committees for Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning and the Economy Committee.[11]

In December 2021, Polanski proposed a successful motion in the London Assembly backing the Climate and Ecological Emergency bill. It was a cross party motion with Labour and Liberal Democrat support.[12][13]

Polanski has worked as a hypnotherapist. In 2013, he took a newspaper reporter for The Sun through a hypnotherapy session to increase her breast size at his Harley Street hypnotherapy clinic. He subsequently apologised for having done this, describing his own actions as misogynistic.[14][15]

He taught at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts and the National Centre for Circus Arts. He sang for the London International Gospel Choir.[16][17] He has also worked as an actor.[18]