Rok Derenčin is the 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.

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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.

Hašim Gudić has joined DCAF as a Programme Manager in September 2026, and is responsible for the implementation of the Swiss-awarded project "Enhancing Capacity and Resilience in Border Policing of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2026–2029)", bringing with him extensive experience in project management in security-related topics, as well as in-depth contextual understanding relating to implementation of tailored and targeted solutions for law enforcement agencies.   

He first joined DCAF Ljubljana in 2019 as part of Integrative Internal Security Governance Support Group (IISG Support Group) until the end of the programme and re-joined the team in 2021 at DCAF-hosted Secretariat of the Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe (PCC SEE Secretariat). He served as a law enforcement officer at the Ministry of Interior of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also worked at several positions within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), as a regional project manager and trainer on comparsion of facial features for impostor detection with the German Federal Police, and most recently as Project management associate at Jožef Stefan Institute. 

Hašim holds a BA in criminalistics from University of Sarajevo. He speaks Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian, Slovenian and English.

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.