'Who are these elites that want to control the world's population? '
The 0.7% of the population who control more wealth than billions of people combined. They set up the structures that Southall mentioned.
Academic is not a university per se, they control think tanks, set up by corporations or billionaires or rich donors which have agendas and which hire academics etc.
The global green movement and the famous "Limits to Growth" report which is what the elites want to do (limit the people's growth) came out of a report by some MIT academics which was commissioned by the elite Club of Rome think tank.
That is how things get done and then puppet politicians (on expenses) push through the agendas decided upon by the real 0.7% elite.
Then along comes Trump, a renegade billionaire maverick, despised by the elite, teams up with one Nigel Farage from Dear old Blighty, detested by the British Establishment and the entire cardboard cutout political class of cronies, career politicians and climbers, loved only by the illustrious People's Army, and puts the fear of God into the elites by saying
"Americanism not globalism"
to which the Trump fans go nuts and which then drives the elites nuts.
Trump beat them and he has only started on them. The people are laughing, the elites are down in the dumps.