Rok Derenčin is the Acting Director of the DCAF Ljubljana Regional Office, where he has been engaged since 2011. Starting as an assistant, Rok advanced through roles including project officer, project manager, and programme manager before stepping into his current leadership position. With over a decade of experience, he has dedicated himself to supporting the goals of the Border Security Programme.

Rok’s responsibilities span project and grant management, coordination and communication with diverse stakeholders, and fostering partnerships with beneficiaries. He oversees the implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of projects and activities, ensuring their success and impact.

An accomplished education and training specialist, Rok excels in the design and delivery of training programs, as well as the preparation and coordination of common operational measures. He is a certified Microsoft Office Specialist, further showcasing his dedication to professional development and skills enhancement.

Rok holds a Master’s degree specializing in irregular migration management, a field where his expertise continues to make a meaningful contribution.

Peter Eglauer is a 37-year veteran of the Austrian Federal Police.

From 1987 on he served as a Team member at the Anti-terrorism Command Cobra, dealing with VIP protection, Air Marshall service, hostage rescue and arrests of high-level criminals. 1994 he changed to the State Security Agency at the Federal Police as a Team leader. In this capacity, he was responsible for execute surveillances and to plan and conduct complex investigations and police operations.

Further experience he gained as Special Investigator at the National Criminal Intelligence Service Austria, as Sub-unit commander in the Central Service Combating Human Smuggling and THB. He served, in an expert capacity, on several international and European missions dealing with a wide variety of law enforcement and legal issues, i.e., he participated in IPTF (UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, at EUPOL Proxima in fYROM and EUPOLCOPPS Mission in Palestine. He later changed to the SIAK (training department), as Lecturer in the Police Academy at the Regional Training centre Linz. Since 2018 he is holding the position as Attaché of the Austrian MOI to Croatia and Slovenia.

In October 2023 he was appointed as an Acting Head of PCC SEE Secretariat.

Katarina Lednik joined DCAF Ljubljana in 2009 and has been working as a Program Manager since 2021. From the onset, she has been assigned to the DCAF-hosted Secretariat of the Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe (PCC SEE Secretariat). Within the PCC SEE Secretariat, she is responsible for all activities related to the PCC SEE cooperation mechanism that brings together six EU and six non-EU countries, as well as for the engagement and development of synergies with international JHA actors. As of 2019, she has also been given an advisory role to the Head of the PCC SEE Secretariat, offering her support in strategic, quality and project management. She has been a core member in several multi-annual multi-beneficiary projects, where she continues to contribute to the coordination, implementation and monitoring of activities targeting the political, senior management, expert and practitioner level of PCC SEE Contracting Parties.

She has finished her studies of Marketing Communications at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana and is a PhD candidate in Security Studies. Katarina speaks Slovenian, English, BCMS and some German.

Nina Pečenko works at DCAF Ljubljana as a Project Officer. She first joined DCAF Ljubljana in 2015 to support DCAF-hosted Secretariat of the Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe (PCC SEE Secretariat). After a year of working at DCAF Ljubljana she decided to finish her bachelor’s degree in graphic design and re-joined the team in 2019 as part of Integrative Internal Security Governance Support Group (IISG Support Group). Since DCAF Ljubljana is no longer a host of the IISG Support Group, she now offers support and assistance in the DCAF Border Security Programme. She speaks Slovenian, English and some Serbian/Croatian.