Ximena del Rocío Peña Pacheco (born 11 February 1976) is an Ecuadorian politician.^[1] She served as a member of the National Assembly from 2013 to 2020, and was the presidential candidate of the incumbent PAIS Alliance party in the 2021 election.^[2]

Ximena Peña was born in Cuenca, Ecuador, on 11 February 1976.^[3] She moved to New York City at the age of 19. She earned an associate degree from LaGuardia Community College, then entered Baruch College. At Baruch, she completed a Bachelor and Master of Business Administration. Peña returned to Ecuador in 2008 and joined the PAIS Alliance political party.^[1]

In the 2013 general elections, Peña was elected to the National Assembly for the United States and Canada overseas constituency. She was reelected in 2017.^[4] In May 2019, she became the president of the Justice and State Structure Commission in the National Assembly. She also led the parliamentary group for Human Rights and Mobility.^[5] In 2020, Peña was coordinator of her party's legislative bloc in the assembly during the third legislative period of the National Assembly, a position she resigned in July 2020.^[6]

In a national party convention, Peña was chosen as the presidential candidate of the PAIS Alliance for the 2021 election. Her vice-presidential candidate was Patricio Barriga, who had served as a Secretary of Communications under the Correa government.^[7][8] Peña was the only female presidential candidate in this election, although there were several female vice presidential candidates.^[9]