Andrej Rupnik is Director of DCAF Ljubljana Regional Office. As a security expert he has gained extensive experience during his professional career in the Slovenian police and national intelligence services. He concluded his studies in the area of Criminal Law at the University of Ljubljana, and was subsequently awarded an LLM degree. He has extensive experience and expertise in the area of criminal investigations and international police cooperation, specializing in criminal analysis, data management and IT in the area of criminal investigation. During his career in law enforcement of more than thirty years, he has held several management and senior management positions within the General Police Directorate, Uniformed Police Administration, Police Academy and the Criminal Police Directorate. He has managed several national projects in organisational restructuring and advised on strategic planning. He has served as Head of the International Cooperation Sector within the Service of the Director-General of the Police, and gained significant EU experience as the head of national delegation to the CATS Committee within the Council of the EU. From 2007–2010, he held the position of Director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency of the Republic of Slovenia.

He speaks Slovenian, Serbian/Croatian, English and some German. He is married and father of two children.

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.

Rok Derenčin works as a Project Manager and is primarily engaged in the DCAF Border Security Programme. He is responsible for project and grant management, coordination and communication with various stakeholders, communication with partners/beneficiaries and tracking of project and activity implementation, monitoring and evaluation and reporting. 

His main areas of work include preparation and coordination of common operational measures and development/design and implementation of various training activities. He is an education and training specialist and a certified Microsoft Office Specialist. He has a Master’s degree in the field of irregular migration management.

Katarina Lednik joined DCAF Ljubljana in 2009 and has been working as a Project Manager since 2011. 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 Assistant. 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.

Offers assistance and support to the DCAF Ljubljana office and Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe Secretariat. She has worked as Administrative Assistant to the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union at the seat of the Slovenian Permanent Representation in Brussels, Belgium. She completed her studies at the International Business School. She speaks Slovenian, Serbian/Croatian, English, and some French and German.