Daniel Peña Sánchez de Rivera (Madrid, 1948) is a Spanish engineer and statistician.

He is an active researcher in statistics and econometrics and was rector of Charles III University of Madrid in 2007–2015.

He is now Emeritus professor at Charles III University of Madrid.

He has been director of the Journal Revista Estadística Española and President of Sociedad española de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Vicepresident of the Interamerican Statistical Institute and President of European Courses in Advanced Statistics.

[citation needed] He has published fourteen books and more than 250 research articles in time series analysis, multivariate methods, Bayesian Statistics and Econometrics that have received more than 10,000 references.