  We present an extension of the HTL resummation technique to non-equilibrium
situations, starting from the real time formalism in the Keldysh
representation. As an example we calculate the HTL photon self energy, from
which we derive the resummed photon propagator. This propagator is applied to
the computation of the interaction rate of a hard electron in a non-equilibrium
QED plasma. In particular we show the absence of of pinch singularities in
these quantities. Finally we show that the Ward identities relating the HTL
electron self energy to the HTL electron-photon vertex hold as in equilibrium.
