Eugenie C. Scott, a physical anthropologist, has been the executive director of the National Center for Science Education since 1987. She studied at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she obtained a Ph.D. in anthropology. She served as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists from 2000 to 2002. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and awarded an honorary D.Sc. by McGill University in 2003. She is widely considered to be a leading expert on creationism (including intelligent design), as well as one of its strongest opponents.