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Christian Lagarde heads the

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She was Finance Minister of France and replaced Dominique Strauss-Kahn in July 2011 as the first woman to head that Washington based body.
Updated On: Jul 17, 2026
  • World Bank
  • UNICEF
  • International Monetary Fund
  • WHO
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The Correct Option is C

Solution and Explanation

Step 1: Identify the person.
The paper prints "Christian Lagarde", but the person meant is Christine Lagarde, a French lawyer who served as the Finance Minister of France.
Her whole career is in economics, law and finance, so any body she heads should be a financial one.

Step 2: Recall how she got the job.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then the IMF chief, resigned in May 2011 after a criminal case in New York.
The post fell vacant and Lagarde was picked to fill it.
She took charge as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund on 5 July 2011 and became the first woman ever to lead the Fund.
Since CLAT 2012 was held in May 2012, she was very much in the news then.

Step 3: Know the body itself.
The IMF came out of the Bretton Woods conference of 1944, along with the World Bank.
It lends to countries facing balance of payments trouble and watches over global monetary stability.
Its headquarters is in Washington DC.
India is a founding member, and India took an IMF loan during the 1991 crisis.

Step 4: Clear out the other three.
World Bank: led by Robert Zoellick in early 2012, with Jim Yong Kim taking over in July 2012. An unwritten rule keeps an American in this chair.
UNICEF: led by Anthony Lake, and its work is child welfare, which has nothing to do with Lagarde's background.
WHO: led by Margaret Chan of China, and it is a health body.

Final Answer:
The answer is option (C), the International Monetary Fund.
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